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Re:Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe... by x1798DE on Saturday July 01, 2017 @11:40PM (#14680769)
> One would think having the phrases "hire you" and "hit on you" in the same sentence when communicating with someone undergoing recruitment at your company would be reason enough to take pause for a moment

I don't know the exact situation here, but to be fair, if you were mostly flirting with someone and it was not a hiring situation, this would not be an unflattering thing to say - "hey, I like you and I think you are smart and capable". If in his mind they met as social acquaintances and in hers they met as business acquaintances, it's easy to see how it would seem reasonable to him and horrifying to her.

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Re:Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe... by adrienne on Monday July 03, 2017 @12:33AM (#14685841)
It was a job interview.
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Re:Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe... by eropple on Monday July 03, 2017 @03:28AM (#14686518)
'adrienne, it looks like you've been hellbanned. I've vouched this post and your other post, but figured you should know so you're not just yelling into the void. When I've run across you I've consistently thought your positions were reasonable and from a group consistently both marginalized and ignored on HN, so I'm very surprised you're hellbanned.
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